Reaction to this unusual move by a politician included these response tweets:

• "Okay Minnesota, I know we have many political sides, but we can ALL come together for this."

• "Your interest in the #bachelor is greater than protecting lives. Too bad you were not so quick to draft a gun control bill. #Reality vs #RealityTv"

• "omg I love Minnesota"

By Tuesday morning, it looked like the "Bachelor Nation" had responded in force. Christensen's tweet has now been retweeted more than 8,000 times.

"Drafting the bill now," he tweeted later. "Should I invite Becca to be my guest at Minnesota's State of the State Address next week? @thebkoof #TheBachelor"

This invite, Christensen instructed the Twittersphere, would take 10,000 retweets. By midmorning on Tuesday, he reported that he was "over 75% of the way to inviting Becca to Minnesota's State of the State!"

After spending Tuesday morning at work in a tax committee at the Minnesota Legislature, Christensen took time over the lunch hour to answer our questions. Turns out that Christensen, 24, a lifelong Savage resident, knew of Kufrin, 27, when they both attended Prior Lake High School.

"I'm really not a 'Bachelor' watcher normally," he said. "But both my wife and I decided to tune in because of the local connection."

But it was hard to watch that local connection get her heart broken in such a public fashion — she thought she was having a rendezvous with her fiance at a house in California, but instead, there were two cameras and a whole crew on hand to witness the Bachelor dump the very first Minnesota winner of this reality show competition, which has been around since 2002.

"I thought it was a little much," Christensen said.

Could the same be said of some of the reaction to his "Bachelor" tweets?

"I feel bad for the people who are taking it so seriously," he said, "as opposed to a fun, tongue-in-cheek thing."

That said:

"I am drafting a bill," he said. "I don't think it will pass."

We're not sure if a rose ceremony will accompany an introduction of the bill, which Christensen said could happen as early as Thursday or as late as Monday. However, we wanted to know: Has any person ever been banned from Minnesota before?

"I don't think so," Christensen said. "I don't think it would be actually be constitutional for that to happen."